| When you decide to sell your home, even before | | | | Organizing and downsizing is best done room by |
| you get around to staging it for sale consider | | | | room. If you start with your storage areas you can |
| downsizing your belongings. As someone who's | | | | clear out things that you don't need any more as well |
| moved numerous times both with and without | | | | as make room for things that you want to keep that |
| children, I've come to appreciate a somewhat | | | | require storage like camping gear and holiday |
| minimalist lifestyle when it comes time to move. | | | | decorations. Clean out your closets. Go through all the |
| However, that minimalist style can also be extremely | | | | clothes in your closets and take out anything that |
| useful when you're looking to sell your home and can | | | | you haven't worn in a long time and anything that's |
| even make living in your house more comfortable in | | | | starting to wear out. Toss out towels and bedding |
| the meantime. | | | | that's getting worn out as well. Go through your |
| There are a great variety of reasons why you should | | | | children's toys and clothes and sort out anything that |
| regularly go through your piles of stuff and eliminate | | | | they don't use or doesn't fit anymore. |
| the unnecessary. First, less stuff in your home makes | | | | Consider pieces of furniture that you no longer need |
| for less to keep clean; it's easier to tidy and organise | | | | or don't fit with your home style as well. Often we |
| your space with less in it and way easier to keep it | | | | hang on to furniture that no longer works with our |
| dusted. Secondly, if you're looking to sell your home | | | | homes just because it has sentimental value. Get rid |
| you're going to be moving; less stuff makes for an | | | | of it if it no longer works. |
| easier move. Next, in order to sell your house you | | | | Once you've sorted all the junk (or treasures) out of |
| should either have a professional stage your home, | | | | your house one of the best things you can do is |
| or stage it yourself; either way, you will need to clear | | | | have a garage sale. Some items may also do well in a |
| out the excess clutter and leave your home with a | | | | consignment store if they are more valuable than |
| clean minimalist look so that prospective buyers can | | | | garage sale material. Anything that you have left |
| actually see what your house is all about. | | | | over after that is best donated to a thrift store or a |
| There are a wide variety of items that people tend | | | | battered women's shelter. |
| to hoard in their homes. Some people never toss out | | | | You will find that once your home is all sorted out, it's |
| old items of clothes while others might store vast | | | | much easier to organize the remainder for more |
| quantities of old magazines and clippings. Some items | | | | comfortable living as well as easier staging your home |
| that people collect are actually quite useful and should | | | | for sale. Prospective buyers will be able to see for |
| be organized and stored properly, however many | | | | themselves the character in your home when it's |
| other items that are collected are mostly useless or | | | | clutter free! |
| unused by the owner. | | | | |